The Lie of the Land

A very incisive and hardhitting documentary about the way in which life for farmers and other people who depend on the countryside for their livelihood is changing for the worse as a result of the decline in homegrown food and the banning of foxhunting Farmers are having to kill calves which it is uneconomical to keep paying token amounts to the local foxhunt as unofficial knackers to dispose of the carcases for feeding to the foxhounds Why should society seem to care so much about the fate of hunted foxes and yet apparently so little about what happens to unwanted cattle which are crossbreed or the wrong sex There is great resentment as typified by the Countryside Alliance marches in London to changes that are being imposed by a government that people in the country feel is neglecting their wishes in preference to those of the citydwellers